Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance …

conflict and more intense fighting. -- conflict ; contest ; alliance ; endogenous internal conflict ; hold-up problem ; non …Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance …

the holdup problem. -- Conflict ; contest ; alliance ; hold-up problem ; experiment …

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment … compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find …

alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending effort above average choose to stand alone. If these players are forced … to play in an alliance, they invest even more, whereas their co-players choose lower effort. Anticipation of this …

We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; contest theory ; multi-dimensional resource allocation ; rent-seeking ; experiments …

destructive nature of intergroup conflicts. -- Communication ; Conflict ; Experiment ; Rent-seeking … collective action in the context of finitely repeated intergroup conflict and demonstrate that conflict expenditures are … that under open communication intergroup conflicts are avoided by groups taking turns in winning the contest. Our results …